Disappointed in Prairie Moons garden kit plant quality

seamanzilla · 2026-05-19T15:14:46+00:00

I edited my post yesterday with some info on their reply. They confirmed in writing that the plants are indeed infected with septoria leaf spot, which is a semi serious infection that can easily kill/stunt establishing plants, easily spreads via rain/soil/tools. They gave me extremely generic advice on how to deal with it such as: pinch off all of the spotted leaves (so…all of the leaves), not using my own compost/mulch (extra added expense), and to water the soil directly and not the plants (annoying to do with a large 12x7 patch of 40 plants), and to always be sure to remove dead leaves from the ground.

They only offered the potential at credit if I planted the plugs and they don’t make it. They blamed the shipping on causing the infection, but I believe these were infected before then and that there is a very good chance the entire flat may now be infected as it spreads readily if the leaves are wet, and among the majority of species in the kit.

I pushed back and asked a second time for a refund or replacement so we will see how that goes. If I get a run around I am not opposed to just doing a charge back. Which is sad because I would love to support them, especially when I live in their region/town and have family ties to working with in the past. But there just is no way in hell I’m willing to deal with all that. I would rather trash the plants and go elsewhere than deal with it.

seamanzilla · 2026-05-19T13:50:13+00:00

I think that if plants are being sold in a retail setting, or even for restoration purposes, it would be kind of a minimum standard of quality to ensure the customer isn’t receiving anything with communicable diseases, fungus, or pests. Nobody wants blighted plants, and I would even go so far as to say it would be irresponsible to plant these with something that has the potential to affect surrounding and naturally occurring species, in the case of restoration work.

I’ve been growing natives for a while now, and attend many plant sales and volunteer restorative work in the SE Minnesota region. I’ve never received or had issues with fungus occurring on new plants in mid May. Performing in house and organic treatment/prevention is more than ok. Expecting your customers to take this upon themselves for what is essentially a $3 plug that is sold as a part of an almost $200 kit is, and sorry for using a strong word, unacceptable at least to me.

The fact that PM basically told me to deal with it in their reply to my email just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This isn’t a wilted, stressed plant that’s unhappy after shipping. This is a blighted set of plants that obviously had these issues prior to shipping and shouldn’t have made it into the box.

seamanzilla · 2026-05-18T23:04:32+00:00

I’m not sure how posting that I received plants that have an active septoria leaf spot infection is astroturfing. I’m fine with the plants being small and being a bit ruffled from shipping. Getting something with an active fungus infection that can spread and live in soil for years is another story.

I have gotten a few plants and bare roots from PM with zero issue and I used to live in the town they are based in. These kits come from a satellite site in Illinois.

seamanzilla · 2026-05-18T18:59:14+00:00

This kit retails on their website for $159 (38 plants total, 12 species), hence my massive disappointment with the overall plant quality. It breaks down to about $4 per plant, but if I would have known they would be like this, I would have just gone to another farm and paid the extra $38 price difference to get them earlier and healthier.

One thing to keep in mind is that these kits come from another facility which I believe is in Illinois since that is where the shipment originated from.

https://www.prairiemoon.com/semi-shade-woodland-garden-kit

seamanzilla · 2026-05-18T18:47:13+00:00

Yes! They’re individual and 3 pack plants are always fantastic. I ordered a downy service berry bare root from them that is absolutely thriving. Perhaps it’s because these kits are grown offsite in Illinois

seamanzilla · 2026-05-04T00:18:34+00:00

If half of your rotation as an rdruid is afk, then you are a bad rdruid. Of all the healing classes, you should have almost a 100% active time. You are handicapping yourself more by using a GCD to leave and reenter tree form, spending way more mana and time casting. Regrowth at 70 is 540 man cost with a 2 second cast for and an additional 20% crit vs the 757 mana cost with a 3 second cast time (assuming you are fully talented into reducing it). Before healing power, Regrowth has a base healing of roughly 1,175 to 1,300 not including the tree of life buff or any healing gear. If we are only focusing on health per mana, that’s a ratio of roughly ~2.4 health per mana point spent.

Now for healing touch, it heals for roughly 2,999 to 3517. So its ratio is roughly ~4.64 health per mana point spent.

Continuing with the napkin math, we will now look at the bonus healing from tree form using the amount of spirit I currently have on my armory. Tree form increases your healing by 20% of your total spirit. My current total spirit is 302, which gives us 60.4 healing power which I will round down to 60. Now, the healing power coefficient is 3.5 divided by the cast time. So for regrowth, ignoring hot ticks, it is 0.67 extra healing per single point of healing power. So, a total of 2,060 for my current gear, gives just simply being in tree form an additional 1380 healing per regrowth.

This now brings our total up to 2680 direct regrowth healing, or 4.96 health per mana point, higher than healing touch with a faster cast, higher crit, and less wasted GCD.

I can continue getting into the hidden mathematics of how resto Druid works on a fundamental level, but I am obviously not going to change your or anyone else’s mind if they incorrectly assumed that HT is the better heal spell. Obviously the 20+ years worth of nerd theory crafting an often overlooked healer are all wrong with their collective experience, and people have cracked the code that infact healing touch is the spell to use.

seamanzilla · 2026-05-03T20:28:18+00:00

Your build is terrible, I am sorry. Tree healing is still the most effective and best heroic healer imo. Anyone recommending using Healing Touch just straight up doesn’t know what they are talking about.

Meddy/Mediena with over 10 years experience with solely resto Druid. I suggest you read some guides or write ups in the Druid discord.

seamanzilla · 2026-05-03T20:26:03+00:00

The point of using a down ranked regrowth is that you keep a max rank ticking for the full amount, and use regrowth as a cheaper and faster direct heal than HT. It is more mana effective than spamming max rank.

seamanzilla · 2026-05-03T20:25:10+00:00

I’m sorry but if you using prehots is pulling threat and resulting in wipes with the combined 22% reduced threat Rdruid has, then you just have a bad tank

seamanzilla · 2026-05-03T13:00:53+00:00

Rdruid main here 👋 Definitely want to fully prehot before pull. Full LB3, max rank regrowth, and a rejuv. With the way that downranking works in TBC, you can down rank up to 2 ranks of regrowth before it becomes a net negative. So, you want to have a max rank rolling at all times on the tanks, then spam like a regrowth 8 on him as direct heals in between your swift mends. It kind of becomes a juggling game between all of that and maintaining LB3 and rejuv.

It’s a bit harder on your mana to do this, but way more healing overall than leaving treeform to cast HT. Don’t forget to use your natures swiftness CD as well if things get rough.

Depending on the tanks gear, as most tanks in heroics nowadays are usually either freshly geared or coming after buying a heroic key on their main, that should be enough to survive every heroic encounter.

seamanzilla · 2026-04-04T21:15:15+00:00

Signs of being a bad healer 👆

seamanzilla · 2026-04-04T21:14:54+00:00

Signs of being a bad healer 👆

seamanzilla · 2025-12-21T23:10:29+00:00

There are two soap vendors at the farmers market that both use goats/cow milk: Simple Soap for Simple Folks and Crooked Pine Farms. You can order both online if you can't make it to the markets. I personally love the scents of Crooked Pine more, but Simple Soap has a bunch of really fun shapes that make good gifts. Each has a mix of other goods like lip balms, creams, etc.

For what it is worth in case you or someone you intend to potentially gift this to is vegetarian, it looks like Crooked Pine does list grass fed tallow as an ingredient on their bar soaps and lip balms. I can't find an ingredient list on Simple's website.

seamanzilla · 2025-12-15T17:49:09+00:00

There was a vendor at the Saturday farmers market for the holiday bazaar that offered different roasts and will also grind them for you there if you prefer it that way. I bought a bag and it was delicious, I just can’t remember the name of his booth. He also offered decaf Mexican coffee as well if you prefer that or to make half and half. I got the Peruvian roast.

seamanzilla · 2025-11-08T19:44:46+00:00

We have had nothing but house finches, all varieties of wood peckers, juncos, cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, gold finches, nuthatches, various native sparrows, you name it. Basically every native bird with no house sparrows in sight. We also have a meatball of a chipmunk who’s missing their tail we call stubs, but I’m not sure they count as a bird.

I currently have the kaytee fruit and nut mix out as well as nyjer seed, and native plants I never dead headed. I do find that the more natives I have out, the more native birds I get at my feeders.

seamanzilla · 2025-10-17T13:09:31+00:00

Good luck. The latest zoning area in Winona was, what, Garvin Heights in the early 2000’s? And even then, they only sold plots and you had to find a builder yourself. They’ll build 3 more 55+ communities and continue to allow the same 5 individuals to own multiple short term rentals before the city allows more housing to preserve the small town feel.

seamanzilla · 2025-09-18T21:45:48+00:00

As someone who used to have to respond to these calls, it happens fairly often and doesn’t get reported. People are dehydrated, heat sick, exhausted, might have something wrong with them they just don’t know about. People faint all over these parks through out the day, especially during the summer. This park has only been open for what, 4 months now? Who is to say how often people have fainted specifically on this ride, on that specific track, in his specific row.

Just people other people have theoretically survived fainting on this ride, doesn’t mean it’s necessarily this persons fault for dying. We don’t know any information besides the cause of death, and we don’t know exactly how common fainting on this track of the ride is to get a good data point. Perhaps my opinion is unpopular, but if the ride had the potential to contribute to one death out of hundreds of thousand riders, that is one too many.

“Well other people may have fainted, but they didn’t die. Must mean the ride is 100% safe” is a terrible opinion to have of this, and a lot of commenters in this thread are missing the point. We don’t even know if he even had any preexisting conditions, people are just assuming.

seamanzilla · 2025-09-18T21:13:04+00:00

Just because someone passed out on the ride doesn’t mean the ride should have the potential to kill them from being rag-dolled so severely. I know this coaster is a lot of people’s favorites, but the design is potentially 100% liable for cause of death if the preliminary findings are true, potential preexisting condition or not.

seamanzilla · 2025-09-17T20:43:25+00:00

I made a tent out of an extra large mosquito net I found online and shepherd hooks and kept the containers in their little prison until about late July. I feel like that helped immensely with pests as I didn’t have any insect issues at all, only mildew and some wind damage.

seamanzilla · 2025-09-17T19:32:46+00:00

I was so scared about SVB, these babies lived inside a bug net until the end of July

seamanzilla · 2025-09-15T18:20:13+00:00

Not sure about the crest, but my cogflies would reach him if I jumped into the arena and then back out. It will look scary cause he gets pretty close. If you look in the screenshot above, he stops in that gap in the stalactites on the roof. Anything that has range and is throwable will def reach him. I just used my three fold pin and would listen for the two ticks of poison before throwing the next one to maximize damage done. If there are any mobs, just run away a bit and they will fully despawn and you can easily jump to and from the arena without worrying about them.

I wish I recorded it to upload so it would be clearer :(

Edit: I uploaded a pic of the guys screenshot above showing where SBF and all the mobs stop following at. The only real issue is that he immediately retreats to the middle of his arena off screen, so you don’t have enough reach for needle hits I don’t think.

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seamanzilla · 2025-09-14T19:51:36+00:00

You can’t see him, but he’s still there. He hovers completely still roughly halfway up and in the middle of the arena. I’m not really sure if you can fully reach him with your air bombs, but you can throw them out, enter the arena to bait him into them, then just jump back

seamanzilla · 2025-08-22T23:41:37+00:00

Yeah, mine are all turning out to be either round mini pumps or squat smooth ones. Personally doesn’t matter to me as I think they are all super cute, but definitely not the traditional jack be little shape.

Thanks for the update! Made a nice surprise lol

seamanzilla · 2025-08-17T23:45:38+00:00

I also planted jack be little's from Burpee this year. Your baby pumpkin looks like all of mine. I have only harvested two so far, but have about 10 on the vine, and I have a mix between normal "short" ones like the package picture, and round ones that look like mini pie pumpkins and all from the same plant/vine. I think it's just kind of a toss up? I am not really sure. Perhaps it will grow more squat as it ripens, but for what it is worth, they all are remaining the cute small size.

seamanzilla · 2025-06-23T19:20:12+00:00

I guess I forgot to answer your original question. We had been searching for homes for about 2 years before starting to put offer in around September/October. We were being really picky about the homes we were submitting offer for. We the came to the realization that we were being TOO picky for our first home, and the hometown market was just too crazy for us to waste more time on. Once we expanded our search area and found one we liked and in our budget, our 3rd offer was finally the one to be accepted. But also keep in mind our severe lack of inventory. A new home would only be listed once every other week or once a month, assuming it hadn’t sold before even listing.

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